In ancient Egyptian religion , a crocodile god.
His chief sanctuary in Fayyūm province included a sacred crocodile, which was believed to be an incarnation of the god. Sebek may have been associated with fertility or death and burial before becoming a major deity and patron of kings in the Middle Kingdom (с 1938–с 1600? BC). He was merged with Re , the sun god, to constitute a crocodile form of that deity known as Sebek-Re. The worship of Sebek continued in Ptolemaic and Roman times.
Sebek, wearing horns, solar disk with uraeus, and plumes, bronze figurine, c. 600–300 BC; ...
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